2026 Calendar of events
25 April Anzac Day
FFFAIF has traditionally supported AWWOD organising descendants’ participation in the Sydney Anzac Day March.ABC Radio coverage of the Canberra Dawn Service and National Ceremony will be heard on local ABC Radio, RN and on the ABC Listen app from 5.30am – 6.00am. This will incorporate a minute’s silence at approximately 5.50am to synchronise the dawn drive-way vigils.
TV broadcasts of Sydney Dawn Service, Canberra Dawn Service and National Ceremony and Melbourne Shrine of Remembrance Service will all be live from 4.30am AEST on ABC TV and ABC NEWS channels, on iview, and streamed live on ABC Australia Facebook and YouTube.
State TV broadcasts of capital city marches and dawn services will also be streamed live on ABC capital city Facebook accounts and on the ABC’s capital city local radio websites.
Every capital city will have live coverage of a local march, however coverage of capital city dawn services will vary in each state. Broadcasts times can be found on the ABC Anzac Day website.
Gallipoli Day /ANZAC Day services will be held in the UK, including:
a Dawn Service at Hyde Park Corner and later the annual Service of Commemoration with a wreath laying at the Cenotaph followed by a Service held at Westminster Abbey;
Baverstock, Codford, Fovant and Sutton Veny on the Salisbury Plain; and at about 15 other locations in England and Scotland;
Also at the Menin Gate, Ieper; and
Fromelles FranceSaturday 23 May Australian Western Front Association, Gallipoli Association, Fromelles Association, FFFAIF Lecture Day
Sunday 19 July Fromelles Day Commemoration in Sydney at the Anzac Memorial and
Melbourne Wreath-laying at the Shrine of Remembrance and Ipswich in QueenslandSunday 26 July Pozieres Service St Columba Woollahra TBC
Saturday 26 September Commemoration of the Battles of 3rd Ypres
Monday 19 October War Widows Day
Saturday 7th November FFFAIF AGM and John Laffin Memorial Lecture Day
Venue: Anzac Memorial, Hyde Park, Sydney and AGM On-line Zoom MeetingWednesday 11 November Remembrance Day
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Recent News
- Fromelles Day 2026 – Commemorating the 110th anniversary of the Battle of Fromelles 19 July 1916
- DIGGER 94
- VALE Dame Marie Bashir: Professor The Honourable Dame Marie Bashir, AD CVO
- Patron-in-Chief Her Excellency the Honourable Ms Sam Mostyn AC Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia
- DIGGER 93
- 2025 FFFAIF Annual General Meeting and John Laffin Memorial Lecture series
- DIGGER 92
- Fromelles Day 2025 – Commemorating the 109th anniversary in Sydney of the Battle of Fromelles 19 July 1916
Author Archives: FFFAIF
*Memorial Way No.7
This weeks Memorial Way features the north coast city of Lismore, New South Wales. The National Archives of Australia (NAA) Mapping Our Anzacs shows that 3,088 men enlisted at Lismore for the AIF during the Great War. The Lismore Memorial … Continue reading
*Briefing Room No.6
One of the names inscribed on the Lismore War Memorial featured in Memorial Way No. 7 is that of Private Patrick Bugden VC. In Briefing Room No.6 we look at Private Bugden’s final resting place Hooge Crater Cemetery Zillebeke Belgium. … Continue reading
*Pompey Eulogy
The Friends of the 15th Brigade held their annual ‘Pompey’ Elliott memorial service at the Burwood Cemetery, Melbourne on Monday 23rd March, 2009 – the 78th anniversary of Elliot’s death. FFFAIF member Ross McMullin and author of Pompey Elliot’s biography … Continue reading
*ANZAC Dinner Invite
Lions Club of West Pennant Hills -Cherrybrook invite you to attend ANZAC COMMEMORATION DINNER to be held at Castle Hill RSL Club, Castle Street, Castle Hill on MONDAY 27th April 2009 at 7.00pm GUEST SPEAKERS: Lambis Englezos & Tim … Continue reading
Bathurst Meeting
Report by FFFAIF Vice President Jim Munro: More than 100 FFFAIF members and visitors with an interest in the service and sacrifice of the “Diggers” of the AIF attended the inaugural Regional Meeting of the FFFAIF held at Bathurst RSL … Continue reading
Memorial Way No. 6
This week in Memorial Way we are travelling to the top of the Blackbutt range north, north-west of Brisbane, Queensland to the timber town of Blackbutt – named after the famous blackbutt tree cut from the surrounding forests for the … Continue reading
Briefing Room No.5
In Briefing Room No. 5, we once again join Stuart Curry as he travels – through the area where the Battle of Broodseinde Ridge, 4-5 October, 1917 and the Battle of Passchendaele, 9-12 October, 1917 took place – under the guidance of … Continue reading
Red Cross Discovery
Historian Peter Barton has been carrying out research on the Missing from the Battle of Fromelles on behalf of the Australian Government. Peter has been researching the World War 1 files of the International Red Cross held at their headquarters … Continue reading
*Birthday Greetings
Today is the 110th Birthday of John ‘Jack’ Ross – Australia’s last remaining First World War serviceman. The Minister for Veterans Affairs, Mr Allan Griffin, office released the following statement: Happy 110th Birthday to AUSTRALIA’S LAST REMAINING WW1 SERVICEMAN Jack … Continue reading
*Past News Available
Did you know that all the RECENT NEWS items which have been posted on the website are still available for you to read? Photo: The re-dedication of the Le Hamel Memorial. Posted 12/11/2008 They are stored under Past News and … Continue reading